| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Hello, my name is -- Chapter 2. Illness and the ways it names us -- Chapter 3. Miracle-like -- Chapter 4. Teens just want to have fun -- Chapter 5. The drive for independence -- Chapter 6. On the edge -- Chapter 7. Marcus -- Chapter 8. Echoes -- Chapter 9. Biopsies: not benign procedures -- Chapter 10. The truth about metaphors -- Chapter 11. Yeah right, poetry -- Chapter 12. Celebration -- Chapter 13. For those who help us survive -- Chapter 14. Waiting room -- Chapter 15. Utterly alone -- Chapter 16. Lost and found -- Chapter 17. Mirror, mirror on the wall -- Chapter 18. Reflection -- Chapter 19. Boys and their bodies -- Chapter 20. Our scars, our selves -- Chapter 21. Mark this beautiful -- Chapter 22. The transplant dream -- Chapter 23. Nightmares -- Chapter 24. Amber -- Chapter 25. Dana's legacy -- Chapter 26. Groundbreaking -- Epilogue -- Afterword: Pamela Grant -- References |
| Summary |
In this collection of unique patient narratives, adolescents who survived kidney, heart, and liver transplants explore through poetry issues significant to all ages: body changes, independence, identity, and mortality. Background narratives provide context and analyses of their poems that are ultimately healing as they voice hope amid uncertainty |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2021) |
| Subject |
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. in children.
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Transplant surgery.
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Medical, Surgery, Transplant.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. in children
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781800435186 |
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1800435185 |
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9781800435209 |
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1800435207 |
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